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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-11705 (kvm)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: kvm-65-15.fc9
Date:  Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:58:24 +0000
Message-ID:  <20081224125824.4969620876F@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-11705 2008-12-24 11:09:08 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kvm Product : Fedora 9 Version : 65 Release : 15.fc9 URL : http://kvm.sf.net Summary : Kernel-based Virtual Machine Description : KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Dec 22 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 65-15.fc9 - Fixed CVE 2008-2382. * Thu Dec 4 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 65-14.fc9 - Fixed bug that corrupted gnome-panel #474702 * Tue Dec 2 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 65-12.fc9 - Properly set flags for interrupt return #464304 * Tue Nov 11 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 65-11.fc9 - Fix CVE-2008-4539 #448525 * Mon Oct 13 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 65-10.fc9 - Fix sysenter save in 64-bit hosts #457649 * Thu Aug 28 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 65-9.fc9 - there's already a 65-8 tag * Thu Aug 28 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 65-8.fc9 - Fixes #459778 - Fixes #452355 * Tue May 27 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 65-7.fc9 - Fix the build * Tue May 27 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 65-6.fc9 - Fix Cirrus heap overflow vulnerability (#448525) * Fri May 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - 65-5.fc9 - Put PTY in rawmode * Tue May 20 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> - 65-4.fc9 - Re-enable patch to fix -kernel with virtio/extboot drives (#444578) * Fri May 16 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 65-3.fc9 - Fix problem with cirrus device that was breaking vnc connections (rhbz #446830) * Tue Apr 29 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> - 65-2 - Fix -kernel with virtio/extboot drives (#444578) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #477636 - CVE-2008-2382 qemu/kvm: remote DoS (infinite loop) via specially-crafted VNC message received by the domain https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477636 [ 2 ] Bug #466890 - CVE-2008-4539 kvm/qemu/xen: Incomplete upstream fix for CVE-2007-1320 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466890 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kvm' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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